Month: February 2014

Pivotal HAWQ was one of the most groundbreaking technologies entering the Hadoop ecosystem last year through its ability to execute complete ANSI SQL on large-scale datasets managed in Pivotal HD. This was great news for SQL users – organizations heavily reliant on SQL applications and common BI tools such as Tableau and MicroStrategy can leverage these investments to access and analyze new data sets managed in Hadoop. Similarly, RainStor, a leading enterprise database known for its efficient data compression and built-in security, also enables organizations to run ANSI SQL queries…

As Big Data continues to demonstrate real business value, organizations are looking to leverage this high value data across different applications and use cases. The uptake is also driving organizations to transition from siloed Big Data sandboxes, to enterprise architectures where they are mandated to address mission-critical availability and performance, security and privacy, provisioning of new services, and interoperability with the rest of the enterprise infrastructure. Sandbox or experimental Hadoop on commodity hardware with direct attached storage (DAS) makes it difficult to address such challenges for several reasons – difficult…